What age did your kids start walking?
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What age did your kids start walking?
| Mon, 06-07-2004 - 2:44am |
I am curious. My dd is now 1 year old and hand walking, wall walking and furniture walking. At her 1st party, a little boy who is 2 weeks younger than her is running a marathon almost!!!! He is moving around like a pro, with no assistance. People started saying stupid things to me to get me going, like "why isn't she walking yet, she's older... what are you doing to her..." bla bla bla. that kind of crap. I kept pretty cool, and just brushed it off. But now I want to know what age did your kids walk unassited at?
TIA
Lesley

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Don't worry about anything, she will walk when she thinks/knows she is ready and comfortable. And don't pay attention to everyone else's comments...everybody ALWAYS has their opinion. ;)
~Chrissy
Carson - SAHM to six
Just remmeber, all children are diffirent, just check with your ped and see if this is ok and go from there :)
all that being said, a really good trick to teach them to go from 'cruising' to independent walking is for you to hold one end of a thick cord/rope and have them hold the other end and walk them around. when they get comfortable with that, start switching to progressively smaller cords until they gain the confidence to do it on their own. both of my kids could walk fine alone, they just lacked the confidence that they wouldn't faceplant, and this worked very well to teach them to do it on their own.
Annemarie
~April
My son Alex is walking on furniture and walls and everything and can now take about 2 to 4 unassisted steps, though shaky. He will be 11 months in 4 days.
Don't let other parents get you down. Some jerks out there feel really crappy about themselves and since they're lazy dorks, they bring everyone down to feel better about themselves instead of trying to improve themselves.
Your baby sounds right on track. My pediatrician says that as long as they're "trying to walk" at around a year (and not still lying on their backs or still trying to scoot or wiggle or something) then they're right on time.
An example I like to use when I talk about child development is me and my brother. If you'll excuse what may sound like bragging, I have an iq of 158 (even though I haven't really done a whole lot with it! hehehe) I began talking at 14 months. My brother, on the other hand, hardly said a word until he was 4 years old and he has an iq of 165. He's smarter than me. That dork! My cousin that didn't walk until she was 16 months old was valedictorian of her school AND a cheerleader (if that shows you that it means nothing for physical development).
Hope that helped
-Heather
Tanya
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